When a definition contains a list such as this, the terms within the list must be within the same class.
Who says? Suppose I define the term "mammal" like so:
The term mammal means any animal with warm blood, vertebrae, milk glands (in females), in utero gestation (in females), and fur
If someone said "fur must mean something else because everything else in the list is in the class 'things inside the body'" <-- I would think that's a silly statement
In any list of things, you can always find some principle of distinction by which one of its items isn't in the same class as the others. Therefore not every item in a list has to be in all of the same classes as the others. If this was a requirement, definitions could never contain lists while remaining true.
100 sats \ 4 replies \ @kytt OP 6 Apr
Who says? The legal system. Within LEGAL definitions, this is how they are construed.
Legalese is not everyday English.
A simple Google search of those concepts will explain them for you.
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Supertestnet only use code language, he doesn't know legalese :)
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Who says? The legal system. Within LEGAL definitions, this is how they are construed.
Afaik, the intention of a law is more important than how the law is written. Judges exist to interpret laws, not take them literally.